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Is the Medical Brain Drain Beneficial? Evidence from Overseas Doctors in the UK

Commander, Simon; Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending countrybecause the incentives it creates for training increase that country¿s supply of skilled labour. To work, thishypothesis requires that the degree of screening of migrants by the host...

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Immigration, Diversity and the Labour Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Some Recent Developments

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement,...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most from the competition created by offshore and immigrant workers? In contrast to the existing literature that has mostly looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration...

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Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: the Source Country Perspective.

Piracha, Matloob; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...

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Change and Continuity Among Minority Communities in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

marriage, cohabitation and inter-marriage, fertility and the employment of women. In all these dimensions we find that the …

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In brief...Blackout babies: the impact of power cuts on fertility

Fetzer, Thiemo; Pardo, Oliver; Shanghavi, Amar - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

impact of power outages on fertility is an important policy issue. For example, barriers of access to family planning may … translate a temporary increase in fertility into a permanent increase in the population. In addition, if a woman is at a …

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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

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An Urban Legend?! Power Rationing, Fertility and its Effects on Mothers

Fetzer, Thiemo; Pardo, Oliver; Shanghavi, Amar - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper answers the question whether extreme power rationing can induce changes in human fertility and thus …-run fertility. Exploiting this variation, we show that women who had a black-out baby find themselves in worse socio …

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Long shadow of the Berlin Wall

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Do people born at different points of the economic cycle have different outcomes - and if so, why? Arnaud Chevalier and Olivier Marie examine the educational attainment and criminal activity of children born in East Germany in the few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall - a time when...

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Female Employment and Fertility - The Effects of Rising Female Wages

Siegel, Christian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Increases in female employment and falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over … the last 30 years the US total fertility rate has been fairly stable while female wages have continued to grow. Over the … supply and, due to higher opportunity cost, lower fertility, they also lead to a partial reallocation of home production from …

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